Earlier in the day, the Sub-Divisional Judicial Magistrate (SDJM), Jeypore rejected the bail plea of Dash and sent him to judicial custody for 14 days. Notably, on the basis of an FIR filed at Jeypore Town police station by Tapan Kiran Tripathy and others who had leveled allegations of cheating, the cops have registered a case under various Sections of the IPC and Sections 4, 5, and 6 of the Prize Chit and Money Circulation (banning) Scheme Act, 1978. In a related development, the Sahadevkhunta police took Artha Tatwa (AT) Group chief Pradeep Sethi on two-day remand today. The cops will quiz Sethi for allegedly cheating investors on the pretext of paying them returns at inflated interest rates. It has been alleged that Sethi had fraudulently collected more than Rs 15 crore through the company’s Balasore branch.